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Tri-Color Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

The first of the year I started cooking along with the “Cook the Books” Challenge, started by two bloggers Grow & Resist and oh, Briggsy. They choose a cookbook each month and then you select recipes and cook and share your experience with the cookbook on your blog. The April’s “Cook the Books” Challenge is […]

Homemade Strawberry Sauce

The smell of ripe, juicy strawberries fresh from the field is what I wait for every spring here in Oregon. Strawberry season is different depending on where you live, but here in Oregon it can start as early as the first week in May. During my visit this weekend at the local farmers market I […]

Gingerbread Cookies Gone Wild!

Gingerbread cookies in my house have “Gone Wild” this year. Living in the foothills of Mt Hood, Oregon I was inspired to make my gingerbread cookies shaped from nature. On a family trip to Yellowstone my husband surprised me with these animal shaped cookie cutters of a deer, salmon, bear, duck and tree. This gingerbread […]

Fresh Blackberry Apple Jelly

If the word homemade jelly makes you think wow that’s a lot of work and looks so hard to do I am here to change your mind. I have been making my own jam for 30 years and I always thought jelly was a lot of work until I decided I was going to give […]

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